Snippet #2265929

Justin sat slumped in his cell, his knees up to his chest and his head tucked over the edge of them, concentrating hard on all the memories that flooded his mind. What is real? he asked himself internally. But no answer ever came to question. He knew he'd been on this ship for months... He knew his name was Justin... But short of that he knew nothing about himself. Where had he come from? No Idea. He answered himself. What did he do before all this? No idea. he answered himself again. Most of Justin's time outside of testing was spent sifting through all the memories he'd absorbed from all the people and beings he was forced to touch... Unfortunately for him every memory he had was from the perspective of the person he touched, effectively every memory he had was like his own memory.. He only knew how to sift through the most current memories because he'd come in contact with those people and begun to remember them and when he touched them... That and the alien's memories... Afterall... Their memories always involved, or at least, mostly involved, things Justin wasn't familiar with.

Justin sighed deeply and gripped his test-subject issued pants in frustration. "Why do you keep doing this to me!?" he begged to no one. Justin stood up, heaving deeply and cursed loudly but to no avail.. It was no use. He knew these cells were sound proof. He turned around, paced quietly as he waited and bided his time. He contemplated often, like he did almost every waking second, trying to escape. But something in the back of his mind told him he couldn't do it just yet.... Unsure why he had that feeling, Justin never seemed to question it. It was like his former life was trying to break through whatever it was that caused him to forget.

Justin banged his fist hard against the solid glass door to his cell and slumped down to the ground in silent defeat. "I just want to leave.." He whispered to himself, "Forget this and remember who I was..." Justin wasn't really concentrating when he realised there was movement outside the cells. Instinctively Justin recoiled, fear getting the better of him. He stood quickly and moved to the back of his cell, quickly ripping his gloves from his hands holding them out defensively; a tactic he had learnt kept his captors at bay... Most of his abductors attempted not to touch Justin at any cost... His ability to absorb memories of those he touched was not only draining on him, but those he touched, but more so for his abductors, potentially dangerous... Not that he had found anything of great deal out about the aliens since his ability kicked in, but the potential was too dangerous for them to allow the possibility happening.

But as Justin raised his hands outwards to ward of the aliens he soon realised it was a man walking past his cell. He in turn was followed by two others, a woman and another man, more extraordinarily they were alone, not accompanied by the ships inhabitants. "WAIT!" Justin called out in vain, remembering suddenly these cells were soundproof. Justin ran forward and began to beat against the cell wall, hoping that the three would notice him calling to them; "WAIT! WAIT!"